Betcha won't see this one on the mainstream media. It's currently only being covered in the Chinese media and Iowan media.
| There have always been those who mistake our freedoms for licence, and think their money will smooth everything. |
China News Service April 14th report, in Iowa state of the United States, 21-year-old Chinese overseas student Tang Peng (transliteration) has been accused of raping a female landlord 2 weeks ago on the pretense of wanting to rent an apartment. After being arrested, he did not admit guilt. After his parents rushed to America, they attempted to bribe the victim to change her testimony, and have also been prosecuted by the police.
[...] The other charge in this case has attracted attention. The Iowa police department's charge that Tang Peng's parents, 57-year-old Tang X [Tang Xuefan] and 49-year-old Li X [Li Qiao] (transliteration) rushed to Iowa after the incident occurred at the beginning of the month, where they had claimed they would find the woman who accused their son and "persuade" her to change her testimony to obtain some remuneration. A friend told the victim what Tang Peng's parents had said, and the police arrested Tang's parents after being informed.
Comments from Weibo, the Chinese twitter:
Has to be the child of a government official or of the rich, used to running amok in China without consequences. Abroad, they won't tolerate this kind of behavior.
They think they're in China, where they can settle things with money, with connections?! Hahaha!
They really thought it would be the same as in China, where as long as one has money one has power and anything can be done. Wrong. America's laws are very sound, but as for China's laws, sigh! Nothing can be said.
Smiles, America's legal system is truly too gei li! People like this truly deserve it!
These parents have gotten used to bribing in China.
This pair of reckless parents, thinking they're still in China, where money along can settle things. The son too must be be influenced by their actions in order for him to do such a nation-shaming thing!
Strange, a domestically time-tested tried and true method not working abroad, truly strange.
Could it be, that outside China, it isn't a harmonious society?
What rich people in China can use money to take care of not working abroad shows that Chinese citizens' moral character has already reached history's lowest point. Reforms have caused China's economy to rise, yet its morals have fallen, just who's mistake is this? I trust history will show us the correct answer.
The tactics habitually used in China don't work in America????
This trick doesn't work in the United States? In China, it totally and completely works.
No matter what mistake he made, we should first protect our own compatriot. When Americans bully us, where did you all go? When they run amok in China, which one of you have stood forth for justice? What difference is this from helping the enemy and selling out your own country? As long as it is fighting the Americans, brother [referring to self] would be the first to enlist, the first to go forth. China cannot be insulted. Only knowing how to bully our own, let me see you go bully foreigners, dammit. |